QuoteReplyTopic: Steven Wilson Royal Festival Hall London 4th March Posted: March 05 2013 at 10:56

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Programme including the Raven story good value for £10 but not essential if you have the album with booklet.

A quite staggeringly good concert. Two and a quarter hours of non stop high quality audio and visual magnificence. The backdrops (upon which images were projected) both at the back and later in the set at the front were particularly effective .

Tough to pick anyone out because all of the muscians were superb but I thought the keyboard player Adam Holzman and Theo Travis on saxophone and flute were exceptional.

Sorry if this is somewhat effusive but it was really that good. The songs were mainly drawn from his latest LP The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories). All tracks from that album were played.

Musically for me many Van der Graaf and King Crimson reference points sprinkled with Floydian motifs which Steven has welded into his own unique sound

Hard to pick a favourite as there were no weaknesses but highlights for me the bleak and disturbing Raider II based on the BTK serial killer Dennis Raider, the fantastic epic The Watchmaker and The Raven that refused to sing and to round it off the early PT number Radioactive Toy as encore.

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